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JOURNAL OF THE 



select and adopt, as the site for their buildings, so much of the 

 Mall, in the City of Washington, as lies between Seventh street 

 and the river Potomac, subject to the power of Congress to grant 

 any portion of the same west of Fourteenth street to the Wash- 

 ington Monument Society, for the purpose of erecting a monu- 

 ment thereon, if the consent of the persons named in the fourth 

 section of the act to establish the Smithsonian Institution, for the 

 increase and diffusion of knowledge among men, be obtained 

 thereto ; and that, upon s,uch consent being obtained in due form, 

 the Secretary is hereby instructed to cause the said ground, so 

 selected, to be set out by proper metes and bounds. 

 On motion of Mr. Evans, 



Ordered, That the Committee on the selection of a site be in- 

 structed to wait upon the President of the United States, and lay 

 before him a certified copy of said resolution ; and that the Secre- 

 tary communicate a copy of the same to each of the officers men- 

 tioned in the act of Congress establishing the Institution. 

 On motion of Mr. Evans, 



Ordered, That the Chancellor and each Chairman of a Com- 

 mittee be a Committee to prepare " a report of the operations, 

 expenditures, and condition of the Institution," for submission to 

 Congress, agreeably to the third section of the act establishing 

 the same. 



On motion of Mr. Seaton, 



The Board adjourned until to-morrow at 12 o'clock meridian. 



WEDNESDAY, December 2, 1846. 



Mr. Choate, one of the Regents, appeared. 



Mr. Owen presented sundry applications for the office of Sec- 

 retary of the Institution, which were placed on file, for future 

 consideration. 



Mr. Owen presented a letter from A. Randall, of the city of 

 St. Louis, asking that the time fixed by the Building Committee 

 of the Board of Regents for the furnishing plans for the Building, 

 may be extended ; 



Which letter was placed on file. 



